[MisterTea]

This has been discussed already and we all know it is impossible to implement. It's also perplexing[1] that suddenly the government care bout ghost guns when we have tons of illegal firearms responsible for thousands of deaths every year in the USA which were legally manufactured right here in the good ol US of A.

A better question is how do we fight these stupid laws and the idiots who implement them? Voting doesn't seem to work and writing your representative also seems like it doesn't work.

[1] We know this is because of the killing of Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione. Clearly the rich people are scared if this is suddenly being pushed but it puzzles me why they are now scared of ghost guns when I can get a gun off the street and buy or make a suppressor. Hell, there are suppressor adapters that let you screw a new automotive oil filter on the end which works well. To me, ghost guns are a nothingburger.

[fpalmans]

Maybe because it is a different type of person who would prefer to use a 3d printed gun. She or he isn't seen obtaining a gun, isn't posting about it on social media, or heard firing rounds 'to test it out'. Might not even have a criminal record, history of violence, etcetera. In other words, someone who wouldn't be (easily) flagged as a dangerous individual could be planning and executing a murder. Also - there is no organization necessary to go from idea to planning to execution. There would be no warning until the attempt.

[adiabatichottub]

Or they could make a zip gun with materials purchased from any hardware store, right down to the necessary ingredients for making black powder. In fact, if you make a muzzle-loading black powder firearm you're not even required to register it federally.

[exabrial]

> we have tons of illegal firearms responsible for thousands of deaths every year in the USA

What firearms exactly are illegal that are causing thousands of deaths? We should quantify that.

[RickS]

Rich people aren't scared of plastic guns, that's completely unrelated. This is drone legislation in disguise. They passed a bunch of import laws on new parts, motors, etc from overseas within the last year or so too. The US is wholly unprepared for the drone warfare of 2020, let alone 2030, and is playing catchup, but cannot come out and say as much, because then everyone would get ideas. Just as "think of the children" is understood by all to be a fabricated excuse for what is actually "systematically deanonymize and surveil all inconvenient adults", this is using a less objectionable goal they don't care about as a foothold for a thing that would be difficult to argue for directly.